St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-07
BLACK AS NIGHT.
The Character of the Viper
Who Invaded the Home Of
Editor Henry.
Seymour's Checkered Career
Before He Became Shep-
herd at GAINESVILLE.
Half a Dozen Women Could
Tell Terrible Tales of
His Doings.
Mrs. Henry Says She Was
Charmed And Knew Not
Her Mind.
Pretty Conclusive Evidence
That She is Correspond
ing With Seymour,
Who Continues to Appeal to
Her to Come And Live
With Him.
Staff Correspondence of the GLOBE.

Staff Correspondence OF the GLOBE.
JANESVILLE, Mimi, Sept. 6.-Why
any one should want to run aWaJ from
GAINESVILLE, even under the espionage OF
an eXpOunder of divine truths, is q
poser. Here nature has thrown down
her most beautiful jewels and arranged
them in manner charming to the eyes.
Around this thriving little city of l,300
souls stretches country rich in Vegeta-
ton and natural beauties. Over there
to the west a heavy growth of oak and
maple Just in the prime OF their strength
climb to the shoulders of a
chain of low lying hills; down there in
the south deep valley, yellow and blue
with golden rod and larkspur, reaches
out from the skirts of the town into a
world of green: over there i'll the East,
like the undulating bosom of the ocean,
sweeps the vast prairie from your very
feet to where the sky bends down to
kiss the Indian flower and the daisy,
and up into the north reaches line of
modest bluffs, crowned with bending
cottonwoods and elmS. 1t is a
lovely spot and the poetic
name, ElySian, applied to the
beautiful lake lying just one mile to the
south might as appropriately have been
given to the town. But it Is the nature
of man to be unSatiSfied, and even in
this beautiful spot. four weeks ago, two
souls beat as rebelliOuSly against the
social and
PATERNAI. TIES
that bound them as the wings of the
bird beat against the gilded bars of it's
cage. A little less than four weeks ago
this quiet community, that for years had
dwelt in the midst of harmony and
peace, was shaken and torn and mutt
lated and ScandaliZed. Rev. David
Seymour, who had given parentage to
five children, left his family in destitute
circumstances, and while the mother of
his offspring was lying on bed of sick
ness stole away from the town, taking
with him one who had-come, to him
for spiritual counsel and comfort, the
young wife of a respected citizen
and the mother of three innocent chill
dren, and in the taking, set blight
upon two hitherto happy families,
fixed a stigma on the lives of wife and
mother and three children that even
time cannot erase, and the community
is still snarting under this insult to its
peace and happiness. Penitent and re-
morSeful over his ceWardly act, the
hypOcrite gave back the remnants of
the life that he wrecked, and himself
took to hiding to escape the vengeance
that has been sworn against him
if his scantimoniouS face is
ever seen again ON the
streets of GAINESVILLE. Mrs J. A. Henry,
the weak woman, whose love of romance
was stronger than her wifely and
motherly affection, has returned from
the claws of the wolf, the glitter of
whose cruel teeth fascinated her, and is
now living in the home of her parents,
while the wife of the hypOcritical divine
is living where he left her, ekeing out a
frugal existence for herself and children
by the labor of her hands.